The "Dog Days" Are Just Beginning...

With finals, the holidays, and New Year’s just around the corner, all students seem to be stressing out more than usual these days. Luckily, Pace students will have the opportunity to try and relieve some of that this week.

This coming Wednesday and Thursday (December 7th and 8th), students will have the opportunity to play with some things you don’t often see around campus- dogs. From 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., therapy dogs will be hanging out in the Birnbaum Room in Mortola Library and Kessel Multipurpose Room, respectively. However, on Thursday, they will move to Conference Room C/D in Kessel starting at 1:00 p.m.

The dogs will be brought here by the “Good Dog Foundation”, a foundation that provides animal therapy for its over 350 partners. The group previously visited the New York City campus in October to help relieve students’ midterms stress.

“I think this will be extremely beneficial for us students who are about to take finals, because the dogs will help us distress a little bit, and they will help us enjoy ourselves before we suffer!” joked freshman Tess Petreycik, a Psychology major.

Dog therapy has been proven to help lower blood pressure, relieve depression, decrease anxiety, and release endorphins- all of which are beneficial for your health.